“It’s so important to connect the dots and for future generations and really put a face with the name of those people who served our country so honorably and whose names are on that Vietnam wall,” says Nathan Mick, a Memorial Fund volunteer leading the initiative in Kentucky.

Mick says about 250 Kentuckians’ photos have been collected thus far.

(In photo, Army SP4 David B. Collins, 24, of Bardstown, Kentucky. He died in South Vietnam on June 19, 1966).